Translators & Collaborators

Of course, as you know, Jules Verne was a French author. Thus, any
English book you read, has been translated from the French. There are good
translators and poor translators. You must be careful because translators
may take great liberties including editting out passages they find offensive,
or too technical!

André Laurie (1845 - 1909) was
the pseudonym of Paschal Grousset a French Politician and author. L'épave du Cynthia (1885) was indicated as a collaboration
when it was published by Jules Hetzel. Verne scholars now consider the
book to be solely the work of André
Laurie. It is believed that Jules Verne simply poroof-read the manuscript
for Hetzel, and that it was a marketting ploy by Hetzel to have both names
on the book.

Laurie also wrote the original versions of Verne's The Begum's Fortune
(1879) and The Southern Star Mystery (1884)